Hello from Los Angeles, where I spent last night in the wings of the Dolby stage watching the best-picture-envelope debacle unfold. I still haven’t gone to bed, so I’m running on eyelash-glue fumes and the high of seeing Isabelle Huppert dance to George Michael’s “Everything She Wants” at the Vanity Fair party.

BEST PICTURE: WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED?

It was when a stage manager started saying, “Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,” that I first knew something was wrong. I had been covering the show from my usual spot in the stage-right wings, watching sweet, Oscar-y moments unfold, like Lin-Manuel Miranda cheering on Moana star Auli’i Cravalho as she delivered a show-stopping performance of his song, “How Far I’ll Go,” and Emma Stone dissolving into tears in Brie Larson’s arms after she won best actress. But when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway announced La La Land as best picture, a panicked murmur went through the backstage crew: “They read the wrong envelope!”

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There was a ripple of activity—the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants who are stationed in the stage wings with the winning envelopes sprang into motion. Viewers at home saw the chaotic scene when La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz held up the real card to reveal that Moonlight had, in fact, won the night’s big prize. As a perturbed-looking Beatty walked backstage after the revelation, a stage manager told him security would like to see the envelopes, and Beatty declined. “I’m holding onto them,” Beatty said. “I’ll give them to Barry Jenkins at an appropriate moment.” Meanwhile Dunaway, seemingly unfazed, was snacking on cashews. Within a few hours, PricewaterhouseCoopers had issued a statement of apology, and vowed to investigate what, exactly, happened to result in Beatty and Dunaway’s holding what appeared to be two envelopes for the best-actress category, rather than one for actress and one for picture. I’ll be continuing to follow the story as it unfolds. In the meantime, here’s my dispatch of the scene at the show.

By the way, this has happened before—at the 1964 Oscars, Sammy Davis Jr. was handed the wrong envelope in the best-music-score category. VF.com’s Yohana Destahas the deets on that night.

Less noticed on Sunday night was another blunder in the telecast, the misidentification of a woman in the in memoriam segment. A picture of living Australian producer Jan Chapman was used during the portion of the montage honoring Janet Patterson, the Oscar-nominated costume designer who died last October.

So what about the rest of the show? VF.com film critic Richard Lawsonwrote that first-time host Jimmy Kimmel “largely kept things at a pleasant frequency, pitched somewhere between respect and lighthearted disdain. The evening’s political tenor was more muted than I had expected, though there were certainly both oblique allusions and direct references to the Trump administration’s controversial policies peppered throughout the night.”

Based on early numbers, it looks like the telecast ratings will be down from last year. Variety’sOriana Schwindt writes that, according to Nielsen, the 2016 Oscars brought in a 23.4 household rating, down from 2015’s household rating of 25.0 and 2014’s massive rating of 27.9.

Oh and yes, the Academy gave out a bunch of awards. A complete list of the night’s winners is here.

AFTER THE OSCARS, BEFORE THE IN-N-OUT BURGER

The botched best-picture announcement was the talk of Vanity Fair’s Oscar party. At one point I saw Moonlight producer Jeremy Kleiner, holding his Oscar, walk up to Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs, give her a hug and say, “What an insane thing.” VF.com’s Julie Miller has a full report from the event. There’s also a gallery of gorgeous portraits of people like Scarlett Johansson, Katy Perry, Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello, shot there by photographer Mark Seliger.

R.I.P. BILL PAXTON

Bill Paxton has died at age 61. I interviewed Paxton for a book I wrote about James Cameron, and found him warm and funny. The two met building sets for Roger Corman in the 1970s, and Cameron would go on to cast Paxton in Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic. When I emailed Cameron on Sunday morning, the director said he was “reeling” from the news, and wrote a tender appreciation of his friend, which you can read here.

TRAILER OF THE DAY

During the Oscars telecast, Netflix dropped a teaser for Bright, the Will Smith fantasy thriller directed by David Ayer that hits the streaming service in December. Smith plays an L.A.P.D. officer who somehow ends up in a world with orcs and fairies.

That’s the news for this cloudy Monday in L.A. What are you seeing out there? Send tips, comments, and Advil to rebecca_keegan@condenast.com. Follow me on Twitter @thatrebecca.